Quotes About Insecurity

I sometimes think people can see that I'm defective, that there's nothing there. Behind the job and clothes and makeup there's nothing to know. I sometimes think I'm this shell and I can't work out why people like me. And when I'm with strangers it reminds me of that. That I'm insubstantial.

When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you from the foul, destructive evil which he believes is the essence of his being and which he believes can injure you.

Introducing your lovers helps prevent one of the scariest aspects of jealousy, which is the part where you imagine that your lover's other lover is taller, thinner, smarter, sexier, and in all ways preferable to funky old you. When you meet that other person or when your lovers meet each other, they meet real people, warts and all, and so often wind up feeling safer. Introducing

If you think someone is ridiculous for finding you attractive, we worry about your self-esteem.

A large part of our difficulties with jealousy comes from our attempts to avoid feeling a scary or painful emotion.

Let us point out that monogamy is not a cure for jealousy.

If you believe that you can use sex to shore up your fragile self-esteem by stealing someone else's, we feel sorry for you, because this will never work to build a solid sense of self worth, and you will have to go on stealing more and more and never getting fulfilled.

No one "makes" you feel jealous or insecure, the person who makes you feel that way is you. [...] when you blame someone else for how you feel, you disempower yourself.

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

I have the Tony Romo of dicks. It can squeak out a win on the road in Buffalo but when you put it in the big game under pressure, it fumbles.

The more irreplaceable and important a person was in one's life, he supposed, the more vulnerable and afraid one became of losing them.

We're our own worst enemy.

Go on Facebook or Instagram or Twitter, and what do you see? Heated, vitriolic arguments. Fake news. Photos taken at parties you weren't invited to. The perfect, curated lives of others that make your own life seem lacking by comparison

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

The urge to blame is based . . . on the fear of being blamed.

If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business.

So it is not age that is threatened by youth, but the other way around. Youth is threatened by age.

Insecurity can also develop from a critical parent who focused on our weaknesses or failures or didn't feel we measured up to some unspoken standard.

You wouldn't worry so much about what other people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

The angry people are those people who are most afraid.

We live in a generation of not being in love, and not being together. But we sure make it feel like were together because were scared to see each other with somebody else.

I might be too strung out on compliments; overdosed on confidence.

I swear niggas be eyein me all hard and lyin to they girls and drivin the same cars.

I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.